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United Academics: welcome, politics, and building names

by Michael Dreiling, President, United Academics at UO Welcome to a new academic year! For United Academics members (and family), join us this Thursday for our General Membership Meeting, September 29 from 5-7 in Gerlinger Lounge. First dinner and then a kickoff to our union’s work for the year. Nearly 40 new faculty join the UO campus this term. If you are a new faculty member reading this, please check out our Faculty Success program events here, and note that the First Year Faculty Development program, offered in conjunction with UO’s Academic Affairs, begins on October 21, noon-1:30 in Gerlinger…

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At PSU-AAUP, a lot of important work for 2016-17

by José Padín, President, PSU-AAUP Another academic year has begun, and our union is again ready to play a vital role representing faculty and academic professionals!   Our member-leaders —all volunteers— will be representing us on many consequential fronts: selection of new university leadership, non-tenure track faculty rights, pay equity initiatives, and work towards developing career steps for academic professionals. A partial list of our important work this year includes:   Participating in the search for a new PSU President Crafting a new evaluation system for non-tenure track (NTT) faculty, as part of the implementation of the right to continuous…

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